Director – Jim Archer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 91m ***1/2 In rural Wales, an eccentric inventor builds a robot companion out of odds and ends, contends with the local bully and finds love – out in cinemas on Friday, July 8th, previews from Wednesday, July 6th Welcome to the reclusive world […]
Director – Keith Gordon – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m ***** In this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, a former Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Israel for war crimes – retail VHS review from Home Entertainment, 1997 From his Israeli prison cell where he must compose his memoirs while awaiting trial for […]
Director – Arthur Harari – 2021 – France, Japan – Cert. 15 – 166m ***** A Japanese soldier who believes his country has not yet surrendered stays on a Filipino island to fight on alone until 1973 – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday 16th May. 16th September 1973. A backpacking Japanese student […]
Director – Andrew Patterson – 2019 – US – Cert. 12 – 91m ***** A radio DJ and a young switchboard operator discover strange noises in the ether which may possibly be of great significance to the small US town where they live in the fifties – on Amazon Prime since Friday, May 29th 2020 […]
Director – Byron Haskin – 1952 – US – Cert. PG – 82m **** RUK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Hungarian born George Pal, who produced the stop-frame Puppetoons shorts in the forties, chose H.G.Wells’ seminal alien invasion novel for his fourth live action production. Media wunderkind Orson Welles had already […]